Impact of pyrethroid-impregnated curtains on Phlebotomus papatasi sandflies indoors at Khartoum, Sudan

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-197

  Elnaiem, D A ^a   Aboud, M A ^a   El Mubarek, S G ^a   Hassan, H K ^a   Ward, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Curtains; Indoor sites; Khartoum; Leishmania major; Permethrin; Phlebotomus papatasi; Sandflies; Sudan

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

IMPREGNATED BEDNET; LEISHMANIASIS; PEST CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BED; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SUDAN;

ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; PHLEBOTOMUS; PYRETHRINS; SUDAN;

SUDAN;

EID: 0033133748     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.1999.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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